Editors Note: This was a post I did sometime when I was in high school (circa 1997). I found this while digging through some old files. My feeling have not changed a whole lot, as I have played occasionally. I would argue my feelings are a bit more developed on why it is a tax for people bad at math. I have made this post more family friendly, corrected some grammatical, and all spelling errors and left the rest alone.
The Iowa Powerball, the Iowa Lottery, all the stupid games that stupid people play. Yes that is right, dumb. The lottery is just a tax for people who are bad at math, or for the laymen, retards.
I look at this two ways. One, your luck at winning anything spectacular in the lotto is just about equal to the odds of you say, right now, that you get up from what you are doing, and drive your car into a tree for no reason. Why this, because if you are reading this you have no desire to run off, and even if you did, you would try to avoid a tree at all costs, unless of course your are retarded, as stated above.
Just what good does the lottery do? Sure it provides for the state, and it pays for the lucky winners who just so happen to live in Michigan or some other [expletive] state that is rich. What else does the lottery do, it pays for advertising costs mostly. It also might interest you to know that it helps rebuild the capital. Ok, I am going to cut that off for a sec. I do think the capital needs restored, but they have been working on it for almost ten years now.
Why? because idiots fund that by buying a lotto ticket hoping to pull them self out of the gutter, while the state uses their money to repair a gutter on the capital. Plus it just so happens that the capital keeps falling apart. I thought we (Iowa) was supposed to have the best looking capital in the US. Or was that state advertising, that was funded by the lotto. I am not twenty one yet, but that does not matter. I think that my chances of winning the lotto increase if I do not play.
How do I figure this, I will get rich saving all those bucks it takes to buy a ticket. And with that money, that I save, I will become rich off of that. Crazy huh. What are you disagreeing? That is too bad, hey, why don’t you take that dollar you have in your hand, and buy your self a couple of clues. You could take the first one and heed what I just said, and save the rest for a better date, or you could sell them to me for a dime. The choice is yours, play lotto and lose, or give me a dollar for two quarters. Either way your a [expletive] loser.
Yours Truly
Trav